400 
Hercules Furens of Euripides, v. 1095, 
1¢96, 
was mvoug Bepreas mvew 
Ketapcs, &# CeCasa, TEupZovey arto. 
I ams Sir, Your’s, &c. 
Higham Fill, E. Cocan. 
OG.'3, 1803. 
ene 
To the Editor of the a, Magazine. 
SIR, 
N enquiry, m the jaft number of 
the Monthly Megazine, concerning 
Italian Compofitions | peremptorily Aferibed 
to Poggio Bracciolini, has confiderably 
excited the curiofity of fome of ycur 
readers. 
Mr. Shephberd’s Life of that eminent af- 
fiftant in the revival of claffical literature, 
I have not yet had opportunity to read. 
The Faceiiz, the Dialogi, the Lauda- 
tiones Funebres, the Sermoues Conviviales, 
the Declamationes Invective, © c. the H:/- 
toria Florentina, and certain Epifola, all 
in Latin, are the only original writings of 
Poggio, which I knew to exift in print. 
He alfo tranflated “* fice books ef Dicdorus 
Siculus,” and ** X2nophon's Hiftory of the 
Education of Cyrus,”’ from the Greek into 
Latin. The tranflations have been by 
fome Englifh Philologitts, afcribed to 
William Frea, Bithop of Bath. But, 
Italian Critics have fince’ proved, that 
Poggio was undoubtedly the tranflator. 
Facope and Giambatti/ta, two of the fors 
of Poggio, were fufficiently zealous to ‘do 
Rinear to their father’s me emory. Facopo 
tranflated his Hiftory of Florence from the 
Latin into the Tufcan diale€t) Yet, nei- 
ther of thefe perfons made public any ver- 
nacular works by their father, nor inti- 
mated that there were any fuch in exift- 
ence, which the public could have a cu- 
ricfity tc perufe. 
abn Gerard Voffius has given an ela- 
porate critical account of Poggio, in his 
very learned work De Hifforicis Latinis. 
Bat, he does not theré fpeak’ of any re- 
mains of Poggio in the Italian language. 
Vhe Jearned L’ Enfant, in lis “* Hif- 
tory of the Council of Conitance;”’ and 
afterwards in the Poggtona, took much 
curious pains to illuftrate Poggio’s life 
and literary merits. But, neither has he 
made any difcoverits refpecting Italian 
compo ofitions by this author. As littie 
mention of fuch compofiti ions is there 
made by Sallen Ig EF in what he fays ‘of 
Poggio, in his Memotres sot gS 5. 
‘Fcbn Baptifia Recanatt, a noble Vene- 
tian, and a member of the Academy of 
bode publithed, in the year 1715, an 
Poggie’s Work-—Mr. Zouch vindicated. 
fDEcOrS 
elaborate edition of Poggio’s Hiforia Flo- 
reniina ; to which he prefixed an ample 
narrative of the hiftorian’s life. In the 
eleventh chapter of Recanati’s life of 
Poggio, there is a critical account of his 
writings publifhed and unpublified. That 
account mentions but one work in Ita- 
lian, as. having been written by Poggio— 
The Inmagini degli uomiat illufirt della 
famiglia de Buonaelmonti—a work written 
in compliment te Poggio’s wife, who was 
of the family of the Buondelmonti. But, 
this work, Recanati mentions, with atin 
as one that was, before his time, loft. . 
In the roth, the 11th, the 13th, the 
22d, the 23d, and the 32d volumes of the 
Giatende hy Letteratt D’ Italia, are feveral 
hints and critical refearches concerning 
the writings of Poggio,—bur, no inform- 
ation of the prefent exiftence of any Ita- 
lian writings by him, either im print or in 
manu(cript. 
Bayle gives no information of the ex- 
frp of any {uch writings. 
An elegant and curious edition of the 
Facetia was publifhed, with a hort Life 
of the author, at London, in 1798. 
editor fays nothing of any- Italian pieces 
of Poggio. 
I thould, therefore, fuppofe the opinion 
of the exiftence of fuch pieces, to be a 
miftake, into which the Edinburgh critic 
has unluckily fallen.* 
St. Andrews, Od. 11th, 1803. H. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ity your Magazine for May*1 $03) page 
209, 300, is a letter, fub{fcribed Ors 
thophilus, containing fome ftriétures on 
three paflages in Mr. Zouch’s edition of 
Walten’s vie VES; 1706, 4to. 
1. In Walton’s Lives p. 270, is,the fol- 
lowing nove on the character given by 
Its” 
Tfaae Waltor, of Mr. Hcoker’s writings. A 
‘© This charaGer of Mr. Ho: oker’s works 
is confirmed 
beft writers. Is it not then painful to 
read ina modern author, whofe learning 
and critical knowiedge deferve every en- 
comium, of a malicious obfervation of 
Hocker, and as remote from truth as it is 
from charity.” Memousof Gilbert Wake- 
field, Db. 132. o 
TE Mr. Wakefie Id, the author here al- 
tuded to, when he qudted the obfervation 
of Mr. Hocker, had left it to ftand or 
tail on its own autoority, no peffible ob- 
jection could bave arifen. -But:to affix to 
it 
* See Mr. Shepherd’s Letter in our laft 
Number, EDIT. 
by the approbation of our - 
